How to format your references using the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (JWM). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

McLaren, J. R. (2014). Ecology: Diversity in the afterlife. Nature, 509(7499), 173–174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ardejani, M. S., & Orner, B. P. (2013). Materials science. Obey the peptide assembly rules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6132), 561–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arora, P. K., Srivastava, A., & Singh, V. P. (2014). Degradation of 4-chloro-3-nitrophenol via a novel intermediate, 4-chlororesorcinol by Pseudomonas sp. JHN. Scientific Reports, 4, 4475.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kroodsma, D. A., Mayorga, J., Hochberg, T., Miller, N. A., Boerder, K., Ferretti, F., Wilson, A., Bergman, B., White, T. D., Block, B. A., Woods, P., Sullivan, B., Costello, C., & Worm, B. (2018). Response to Comment on “Tracking the global footprint of fisheries.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6404).

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Cheng, L., Lopez-Beltran, A., & Bostwick, D. G. (2012). Bladder Pathology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ciarimboli, G., Gautron, S., & Schlatter, E. (Eds.). (2016). Organic Cation Transporters: Integration of Physiology, Pathology, and Pharmacology (1st ed. 2016). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Masod, M. Y., Mohamad, M., & Yahya, M. F. Z. R. (2015). Microscopic Image and Text Examination of Conventional and Digital Printouts. In O. H. Hassan, S. Z. Abidin, R. Legino, R. Anwar, & M. F. Kamaruzaman (Eds.), International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2014) (pp. 35–45). Singapore: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 12). Can Invertebrates Feel Pain? IFLScience; IFLScience. Retrieved from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/can-invertebrates-feel-pain/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1981). Achieving Greater Economies in Data Processing in Federal Government (No. 115926). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Grijalva, J. A. (2010). Exploring cultural finance: A phenomenological approach to comparative cultural perceptions of money in Mexico [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Leland, J. (2016, November 4). World Chess Smackdown! Be There! New York Times, MB1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (McLaren, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ardejani et al., 2013; McLaren, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Ardejani et al., 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kroodsma et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
ISSN (print)	1072-8325
ISSN (online)	1940-431X
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